FILE: Joey Maffo, 12, grandson of Joe Maffo, left, owner of Critter Management, helps secure an 8-foot alligator in August 2013 after the seventh grader snagged it at a lagoon ringed by homes in ...

BEAUFORT CO., SC (WTOC) - The owner of Critter Management in Beaufort County, Joe Maffo, has lost his contract with South Carolina's Department of Natural Resources and his license to catch gators has ...

Most people know Joe Maffo as Beaufort County’s resident alligator wrangler, wildlife expert and Critter Management owner. But now, people around the country might get a chance to meet him, too — on ...

FILE: Joey Maffo, 12, grandson of Joe Maffo, left, owner of Critter Management, helps secure an 8-foot alligator in August 2013 after the seventh grader snagged it at a lagoon ringed by homes in ...

A Bluffton woman was arrested Thursday and charged with six counts of failing to pay the state taxes her company withheld from employees’ paychecks, according to a news release from the S.C.

“Vinny” was hauled out of the water and dragged onto the bank Tuesday morning, and soon the alligator’s mouth was taped shut, her legs were bound and a black strip of tape was placed over her eyes.

One of Hilton Head Island's beaches had an unusual visitor Monday morning: a 12-foot alligator. The big gator -- estimated to be 45 years old and weighing 800 pounds by one of the wranglers called to ...

For the first time in years, Joe Maffo learned of an alligator in need of removal but could not do anything about it, he said Thursday. The gator was struck by a car along U.S. 278 in Bluffton early ...